Re: I consider orphaning pybliographer

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I am only an user of pybliographer. Thanks Fr=E9d=E9ric for your effort and
work on it.

Juan.=20
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Juan A. A=F1el

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El mar, 08-04-2008 a las 08:24 -0400, Douglas S. Blank escribi=F3:
> Thanks, Fr=E9d=E9ric! Good luck with future projects,
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> -Doug
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> On Mon, April 7, 2008 5:34 pm, Fr=E9d=E9ric Gobry said:
> > Good evening!
> >
> > I've been working on pybliographer for a while now. Unfortunately I
> > don't use it personally anymore, which limits my incentive to continue
> > to do so. Recently, I've used it to try out different design and
> > technologies (on how to adapt various databases, how to use twisted
> > for querying external databases,...) which might not have been for the
> > direct benefit of the users.
> >
> > The global shape of the code, imho, is the following:
> >
> >  * 1.2 is definitely usable, but prone to bit rot: it has no decent
> > tests, and some design choices limit the evolution of the code base. I
> > definitely don't fancy working on it as it doesn't make it possible to
> > run the experiments I'm interested in
> >  * 1.3 is interesting and seems sane in terms of design. I've been
> > recently working on the following things:
> >      * new external queries: arXiv is half done
> >      * a BibTeX bst engine, so that 1.3 is able to reuse and extend
> > legacy bibtex formats (and integrate them in openoffice for instance)
> >      * a new interface to modify bibtex files programatically (much
> > simpler than the current one, no loss on parts that are not modified
> > even if they cannot be interpreted fully)
> >
> > However, I definitely don't have the time to make a _product_ out of
> > 1.3, which is a shame. I definitely feel that people that would have a
> > need for the features could jump in and move the code from "proof of
> > concept" to "usable". I'm definitely ready to help them out and spend
> > some time documenting things, explaining, fixing random things, but
> > either I or the code turned off most of those few who were interested
> > in the codebase. So, despite interesting discussions (hi Zoltan, hi
> > Peter !), today it costs me more frustration than satisfaction.
> >
> > So I'd like to plan either the handing off or the retirement of
> > pybliographer. From my perspective, this means:
> >
> >   * I'll be here to help out as much as possible until the end of
> > 2008, but won't start any new effort
> >   * I'll then consider myself a simple subscriber to the ml and
> > advertise the fact the the project is frozen, to avoid misleading
> > potential users
> >   * I won't renew the domain name (in 2011, this gives some time :)),
> > unless someone has taken over the project by then
> >
> > Thanks to all of those who contributed, either code, translation,
> > support, comments. This has been an interesting experience!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --
> > Fr=E9d=E9ric
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